You'd better take care
You'd better check your underwear
Nanny's coming to town
Nanny's coming to call
Nanny's coming to call on you, today.."
Yes folks, up until now Nanny was just someone you read about and had nightmares about.
Now she's coming to town, possibly to a home near you, in person!
Cue the dramatic "DUN DUN DUN!" music.
Nanny has decided that some people really don't know how to behave. Therefore she is going to send in her own battalion of supernannies to the homes of "problem" families.
This is yet another of Nanny's answers to anti social behaviour.
Nanny will send disciplinarians, no jokes about phone box cards and personal services please folks, to impose order on problem households.
Specially trained social workers will use similar techniques to those used by the Channel 4 series "Supernanny", they will be assigned to individual families for up to 15 months.
Nanny's chums in the Home Office say that there will be "no escape" from them, as they spend "morning, noon and night" with parents and their youngsters.
I thought that house arrest was generally only practiced by third world dictatorships?
The nannies will do the job of the parents, and totally take over every aspect of the family's daily lives; they will arrive early each morning to ensure the household is out of bed and youngsters sent to school. Their tasks will include ensuring children are properly fed and dressed, and encouraging layabout parents to find a job.
It really has come to this, that the state is now taking over the role of the parent!
Once that happens, any last vestige of resistance to Nanny will be crushed.
Nanny's little troll, Hazel Blears the Home Office minister, puts it rather "eloquently":
"What makes this project distinctive and different is that a lead person 'grips' the household and the range of services and professionals that are involved with the families."
Case workers will be ordered to do whatever it takes, within the law, to gain access to the family home every morning. They will stay until the young children are put to bed in the evening, and until they are confident the older children are off the streets.
Nanny's Home Office said:
"These workers will be with the family morning, noon and night.
If they have to shout through the letter box and bang on doors to get through the door, that is what they will do."
By the way, this will cost £15,000 per family.
Nanny has forgotten that the reason that families are behaving like this is because the state, by interfering in our daily lives, has taken away people's self responsibility.
To my view there is simpler solution, stop paying benefits to anti social scumbags and run them out of town.
Less than a hundred years ago local communities would take matters into their own hands when a family was considered to be disruptive. The residents would gather outside the house of the nuisance family, and start to bang dustbin lids and shouting until the family got the message and left town; the family would be literally "drummed" out of town.
We do not owe people a living; PERIOD!
Blimey, when will these "New Labour" prats starts to realise and understand the major problem which lurks behind this anti-social behaviour. Only today Brown has come up with the following gem: "Under plans to be outlined by Chancellor Gordon Brown, badly-behaved teenagers will have professional "coaches" to keep them out of trouble.
ReplyDeleteAccording to The Times, the youth opportunity cards rewarding youngsters for good behaviour will operate in 10 pilot areas.
All 13 to 19-year-olds will be given the cards, entitling them to spend £12 a month in better-off areas and £25 in more disadvantaged areas on local sporting and other facilities.
Youngsters who repeatedly misbehave will have their cards withdrawn".
Brown, as far as I'm concerned, if you think this idea is so brilliant then pay this money out of your own pocket, sunshine, not out of my hard earned and hard paid taxes!!
Why is it so difficult for these clowns to understand that if those who mis-behave were made personally accountable and answerable for their misdemeanours, they might start thinking it was a good idea to behave. When we were young, we were punished, from a clip around the ear to six of the best with the cane for really bad behaviour by our headmaster if necessary. And it did us no harm, but... and this is the big but... it taught us the difference between good and bad behaviour, social responsibility and, above all, personal accountability!!!!
The problem is that there are too many Nannys making these idiotic decisions in this country, and the results of their idiocy are plain to see.
"If they have to shout through the letter box and bang on doors to get through the door, that is what they will do."
ReplyDeleteWill these people have statutory right of entry? If not, I suggest they should be told to go away (using whatever expression is appropriate at the time). Then the beleaguered parents should write to the Home Office, withdrawing the implied right of access to their property (this is the right enabling postmen, milkmen, and other legitimate callers to set foot on private ground; if it is withdrawn, there can be no access to proscribed persons without the offence of trespass being committed. Furthermore, if a proscribed person interrupts or in any way interferes with the freeholder's enjoyment of his property, the offence becomes "aggravated trespass" and is much more serious).
The same tactics are advisable with other trolls in Nanny's employ, such as the devious goons from TV Licensing and the soon-to-hit-our-streets snoops who will upgrade our council tax band if a room in the house is found to have been cleaned within the last 20 years.
Who the HELL do these New Liebour a**holes think they are? They should be reminded at least once an hour that they are the paid employees of the electorate.
(I feel better for getting that off my chest!)
The idea of limiting many social workers to actually do some work on a more than full time basis (how will they persuade them to do 18hours a day for 7 days a week for 15 months?) has some attractions in my opinion. At least it would stop them flitting around making more problems.
ReplyDeleteI liked the comment about clowns.
This governement is moving ever closer to looking like a bad soap opera bereft of good story lines. Ideas like these are the equivalent of a 'comedy' thread introduced to lighten (or perhaps hide in this lots case) a more important story or simply because they have no idea what path to follow next.
They do seem to be working very hard at the moment, as Quentin Letts points out in today's Daily Mail, to come up with all sorts of press feeds to divert attention from the new 'Ministers have the right to change the law when they wish' bill starting its passage through parliament.
Heck, I am even beginning to wonder if the Tessa Jowell thing I also just a part of the smokescreen. I wonder what her hubby knows (being an associate of the Italian chap that Nanny Bliar seems to get on so well with) that Nanny would not like to have made public?
Or am I being a little over inventive here?
I'm with Ken. Stopping benefits only requires a keystroke. The remaining £14,999.57 can be spent on fire wood to burn 'liberals'...
ReplyDelete"By the way, this will cost £15,000 per family"
ReplyDeleteAnd that gets you 18hours a day for 7 days a week for 15 months, I don't think so, not unless Nanny plans on using illegal labour and paying in cash
Oh Chris, you cannot possibly be thinking that Nanny would break the 'National Minimum Wages' Laws she herself brought in several years ago, surely not??
ReplyDeleteNow, er, let me think.. minimum wages in UK are £5:05 per hour, at 18 hours per day x seven days per week x 65 weeks (15 months) comes to £41,359:50!!
Doh.. I make that slighty more than £15,000
Spiv,
ReplyDeleteI can only assume Gordon didn't have the exact figures on hand and must have asked a colleague what they paid their nanny and built the numbers on that.
Of course this initiative will rely on our continued opt out of the EU working hours directive. Also I pity the poor social worker who has to take their problem family on holiday with them to maintain continuity of care
Having spent the last 30 years in southern Africa I had the misfortune to have to return to the UK for family reasons. I could not believe the deterioration in the behaviour of a majority of the country, the extent of the Nanny state such that people will not take responsibility for their own lives. Ken's blog sums it up exactly.
ReplyDeleteI put the blame at the feet of those PC liberals that took away the right to enforce discipline. As other posts here have noted, the rod never did us any harm, in fact it enabled us to see the difference between right and wrong and between acceptable/non acceptable behaviour.
Is it any wonder that we go around in fear of the hooded youngsters?
And as for the Nanny statements that these yobs hang around because they have nothing better to do - what b****cks, they just don't have the nouse to amuse themselves, without being disruptive.
As an aside, I cannot understand the need for all these new laws and edicts from the palace of Westminster (nearly said Government, but that is a misnomer). It is as though the parlimentarians have to dream up legislation to keep them in gravy train jobs. Or am I now being unduly cynical.
Ans as for Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep.............